miniatures

Evidence

"Private collectors such as Hotz and Willet may have decided to buy Turkish manuscripts for this reason only—their libraries comprise one item each and both have miniatures of high artistic quality."

Remarks

Miniatures of high artistic quality were a significant draw for private collectors and museums (p. 345). The Ethnographic Museums of Leiden and Rotterdam specifically purchased small collections due to their richly illuminated texts and miniatures (p. 345). The presence of these pigments and illustrations varied greatly depending on the original patron or collector's interest in the visual quality versus the textual content (p. 344).